The Best Korean Zombie Movies to Sink Your Teeth Into

The Korean film industry is experiencing something of a zombie resurrection. While all eyes are on the international success of addictive K-dramas and Bong Joon-ho’s Academy Award-winning film Parasite, the country's filmmakers are also creating some of the most ambitious, unsettling and even comedic entries to the zombie genre. The renewed K-zombie movie trend arguably began with Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016 Train to Busan, which envisions a zombie outbreak on a moving train, and has since expanded to encompass many more films.

Perhaps most interesting about the K-zombie renaissance is the apocalyptic visions offer a dash of social criticism—hitting at the rigidity of class structures, the encroachment of technological advances, or the collapse of society after the random introduction of a viral pathogen. Essentially, these great Korean flicks aren’t all just made to get easy scares from flesh eating monsters.

From Netflix’s newly released #Alive to Peninsula, you'll find a little bit of everything here–psychological thrillers, body horror, class allegories, and even a historical drama, all unified under their shared subject matter: the undead.